{"id":1317,"date":"2013-07-23T00:55:07","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T00:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2013-09-14T22:38:17","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T22:38:17","slug":"for-young-african-women-graca-machel-scholarships-for-postgraduate-studies-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/?p=1317","title":{"rendered":"For young African Women: Gra\u00e7a Machel Scholarships for Postgraduate studies in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canoncollins.org.uk\/wpimages\/wp8859d845_05.jpg\" width=\"158\" height=\"92\" \/>The deadline for this scholarship program is December 10th and August 4th (annually)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Studies are to be done in UK or in South Africa. The next course starts in September 2012<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The key aim of the Graca Machel Scholarship Programme is to help provide the female human resources necessary for economic, social, and cultural development in the Southern African region and to develop an educated and skilled workforce that can benefit the wider community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This scholarship program covers the following fields:\u00a0Health, Education, Science &amp; Technology, Economics &amp; Finance, Development. Approximately 60 scholarships are awarded annually.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All scholarships are for postgraduate study, either for one academic year if based in the UK or for two years if based in South Africa. \u00a0The scholarship includes payment of a maintenance allowance, travel, health insurance, and tuition fees.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Who can apply?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Scholarships are awarded on a competitive basis to women on the basis of academic\/professional merit, financial need, intended academic programme, leadership potential and commitment to work for constructive change in Africa. \u00a0Applicants must have at least two years relevant work experience.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Female students from\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe<\/span>.\u00a0\u00a0It is for women who have experienced significant struggle in their life and who have sought to overcome those barriers, be they related to gender, disability, poverty, age or racial discrimination.\u00a0Applicants will be expected to show their commitment to the development of their country and region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For study in UK, the application deadline is every <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">December 10<\/span> and courses start in September of the following year. \u00a0For study in South Africa, the application deadline is every <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">August 4th\u00a0<\/span>and courses will start February of the following year. \u00a0It is important to visit the website or read the complete scholarship information and application details here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For details:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.canoncollins.org.uk\/gracamachel.html\">http:\/\/www.canoncollins.org.uk\/gracamachel.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source of the Flag:\u00a0emac-online.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deadline for this scholarship program is December 10th and August 4th (annually) Studies are to be done in UK or in South Africa. The next course starts in September 2012 The key aim of the Graca Machel Scholarship Programme is to help provide the female human resources necessary for economic, social, and cultural development [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scholarship-bourses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6104,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions\/6104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}